Good morning!!!!

[lostcreekranch]

Almost right, Ron. On this 2017 Ford Escape you have to press that start button twice. You reminded me enough that I didn't have to get the manual out.:laughing: That Start button even has "2X" in a circle on it. I figure most northern folks use that feature in the Winter to let the car warm up inside a bit. Down here, it's for the summer to let it cool down inside first.

My Ford F-350 has remote start and I use it all the time. Problem is you have to be in it, with key in ignition, and turn on seat heaters manually. Heat and A/C do work though, on start, if temp control was left in “Auto”.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Don’t google tooth fairy unless you’re ready for an education!

Oh No! Say it isn’t so!

 

[sodamo]

61°F and .82 inches rain

Off to Vet this morning, Kalani gets her stitches out from her lumpectomies. Doing great.

Need to get some stuff at Home Depot.

Prayers for those in need.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[toppop52]

My Ford F-350 has remote start and I use it all the time. Problem is you have to be in it, with key in ignition, and turn on seat heaters manually. Heat and A/C do work though, on start, if temp control was left in “Auto”.

My late wife’s Edge Limited turned on the seat heaters as well, if you had them programmed in. You just went into the system and turned on what you wanted to work with the remote start.

 

[toppop52]

Oh No! Say it isn’t so!

I wanted to text my grandson a picture of the tooth fairy when he lost a tooth last summer, I got some pictures alright! Wow!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

36°F and clear skies this morning, going up to 48°. Chance for some more rain and possibly some snow this evening. The rain was coming down in giant drops on the drive home from work yesterday. Seemed like my car was being pelted with water balloons at one point.

I've never liked peas. I'll eat them if they're mixed into something like shepherd's pie or fried rice, but even them I'm likely mumbling about it. Just never liked them.

My brother from another mother....'cept I can't play any musical instruments....But I can play a great stereo/radio!

Have to agree. My own hatchet as a boy was a prized possession. Favorites I got from an uncle.

Was your uncle's name possibly "Uncle Buck" (John Candy)?

You guys up in the NE, batten the hatches again.

Freedomlives, we have clay, clay, clay. I try not to roll in it too much. Oink Oink.

Had a stomach bug work it's way through last night. TMI. Better now.

I see Drew is working on that implement/tractor 1/1 ratio.

Prayers for all of you.

 

[jbrumberg]

I liked "Uncle Buck." My niece was calling me that for awhile after she saw the movie.

It's been ~32F here all day so far with light snow showers/frizzle falling most of the day. It started to really snow ~ 1:45PM and the wind is picking up as this coastal storm revs up. Every time I look at one of my favored radar weather maps the barometric pressure has dropped another 2mB.

Freedomlives- Our driveway was similar until 30 years ago I contracted with a local excavating company that ultimately removed ~170 yards of clay, etc. and replaced it with 180 yards of ballast rock, rock, geotextile material, and topped with "crusher run" gravel. We have not had a problem since. It is time for another topping.

 

[toppop52]

42, .9 inch of rain so far, gotten a bit breezy, hoping my newly reconstructed flagpole is up to the task. Waiting for UPS to deliver my new powerhead from Genie, one opener randomly caught fire when the transformer failed while idle, luckily my wife saw it and got my attention. That was just a couple of weeks before she passed and I haven稚 done much about it until lately, sent them a picture and they are sending me a new one even though it was three years old. That痴 good service in my book.
I hope they leave it if I知 gone, got a meeting and then a takeover at Buffalo Wild Wings for We Care.
Pic of transformer;

 

[freedomlives]

jbrumberg-- near when we moved in we had drainage problems in the yard by the house. A friend from the US was staying with us for that winter and spring (he later married a Slovak friend of ours) and as "rent" he was helping me dig a french drain along the house to help with the water. There it was hard going-- at least 1 foot of a hard packed mix of gravel and clay. My wife's grandfather had worked for the road maintenance department, and it seems for years he was getting fine gravel dumped in the yard to try to fix the mud-- I guess the stuff that they pile by the roads here to spread in case of ice. It didn't work so well-- just sank down into the clay. Our short driveway though I did dig out two tracks and fill with coarse gravel, so at least we don't have a problem parking cars. This year, when concreting season begins again, I want to put down concrete there.

But for this hill going up-- that in the photo is worse, it is the neighbors yard that I use, and it is steeper. Ours is a bit less steep, but equally clay. Geotextile and then a lot of gravel will indeed be eventually what I have to do there.

toppop52-- its nice when companies do that. I broke a Stanley ratchet years ago, stuck it in a drawer, and last year came across it, sent them an email asking about spare parts, and they volunteered to send a new one (albeit to my mother's US address, wouldn't be fair to ask them to send it over here when I bought it over there).

 

[jbrumberg]

Randy- I hope that you have a good time at BWW. I've never tried their food.

freedomlives- How stable is that "hill"? From the looks of it that road must be "flowing downstream" at a measurable rate/year. My property has slid noticeably downhill in places thanks to the surface soil and subsoil compositions.

My first real "tractor" was an old Ford 1000 4WMD with a dual hydraulic dozer blade. I used it to drag an old reinforced car hood "stone boat" up and down the old driveway to try to even out the ruts in the mud. All the rocks that I pulled from the garden sank into the mud of the driveway returning back from where they came. I bet that some of those rocks migrated back to the garden somehow.